‘Unrewarding’ day for Yamaha as Alex Rins, Fabio Quartararo struggle at Aragon

Yamaha feared the new Aragon surface miওght have so much grip they would struggle for tyre life, instead "we discovered the opposite."

Alex Rins, 2024 Aragon MotoGP
Alex Rins, 2024 Aragon MotoGP

Yamaha’s ongoing lack of grip, and inability to exploit fresh tyres in a time attack, taunted 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Fabio Quartararo during Friday practice at the Aragon MotoGP.

While a༺ll riders struggled for grip on the new Aragon track surface, the pair were hit harder than most.

Despite some new parts - including aero tweaks - from the recent Misa📖no test, Rins and Quartararo finished just 19th andဣ 20th respectively on the timesheets.

As in Austria, they were once again beaten by the leading Hon🐲das.

“We had a busy but unrewarding first꧅ day at the Aragon track,” said Monster Yamaha team director Massimo Meregalli.

“We had higher hopes for the new tarmac when it comes to improved grip, so much so that w⛄e were afraid it would negatively affect tyre life, but we discovered the opposite today.

“This amplified in a negative way our performance. We will spend all the aಌvailable time before the next session to learn from the data we collected today to prepare🧸 something for FP2 and the qualifying sessions.

“On top of today's lack of grip, Fabiౠo had a crash in Turn 6 butꦕ, luckily, it had no big consequences.”

Quartararo, unable to lean his bike as much as in previous years due to the poor edge grip, began the weekend with 18th in FP1 but briefly featured in the 𒅌ten top d👍uring the afternoon.

However, the crash forced him to go straight into time-attack mode on a﷽ different spec (spare) bike and he w💟as left 1.6s behind fastest man Marc Marquez.

“Today, and especially tꦑ꧋his morning, was quite tough for us,” said the Frenchman. 

“I crashed in the afternoon, 🔜so I had to go out with a different bike that I was not supposed to use because it was a different spec. 

"I had to adapt to it quite quickly. But overall, the🌄 feeling was not great today.”

Rins was just 0.001s faster than Quar🐽tara༺ro on his M1.

“The grip was very low, and the day was quite hard🧸,” said the Spaniard, a former Aragon MotoGP winner for Suzuki. 

“Today we gave our maximum, as always, and it looks liꦰke we are a bit further f🅰rom the top guys than we were at other tracks.

“For sure, the low-🦩grip conditions at this track don't help us. Let's see if we can improve tomorrow.”

👍The good news for the Yamaha duo is that track conditions are expected to improve significantly as the weekend goes on.

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